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Wisdom"! Please follow along through Christmas day as each post shares heartfelt
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All I Want for Christmas…
Is to be able to have Christmas this Year
by Melissa Mashburn
This is a simple request, isn’t it? In the previous years, we had great big bountiful
Christmases with our family. Gifts, goodies and general Christmas cheer but this year it
was different. The year before has been chock full of disappointments, failing businesses
and severe cutbacks for our family.
Sitting with my husband one night we hammered out the bare minimum that we could
spend that year for Christmas and even still the total was four hundred dollars. It does not
sound like a whole lot compared to what we’ve spent on Christmas before, but this year it
could have been four thousand dollars because we just did not have it.
We prayed, I cried, we prayed some more and decided that we would cut back anything
else that we could that year so we could have Christmas for our kids. We did not know
how we would make this happen, but we knew that we needed to step forward in faith
that it would happen.
Answer this question: Does the God who lavishly provides you with his own
presence, his Holy Spirit, working things in your lives you could never do for yourselves,
does he do these things because of your strenuous moral striving or because you trust
him to do them in you? Don't these things happen among you just as they happened with
Abraham? He believed God, and that act of belief was turned into a life that was right
with God. Galatians 3:5 the Message
Not even two days later, we hear a knock on our front door. We open the door to see
some friends of ours from church. With tears in their eyes, they handed us an envelope
and said that the felt they needed to give us this. We opened the envelope and inside there
was four hundred dollars cash.
Shocked, stunned and with tears flowing down our face we just sat there in a state of
crying and laughing at what God had done. We never shared with anyone that year what
we needed, how bad it was, what was going on or what that number was for us to have
Christmas for the kids, but God knew.
“And God will generously provide all you need. Then you will always have everything
you need and plenty left over to share with others.” 2 Corinthians 9:8 NLT
He took a willing servant, led them to our front door and changed Christmas for us that
year. After many years of being in full time ministry we knew that God would provide,
but when He shows up just at the right moment, you know that it was all a part of His
plan to show how much He loves, provides and cares for His people.
Father God, thank you that after all the years of serving and loving you in ministry
that you continue to teach, guide, love, shepherd and care for us. You, Father, are
abundantly gracious and kind, thank you for showing up for us at just the right moment
every time, forgive us when we forget that. In Jesus name, Amen.
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